From moliveira@kth.se Sun Oct 15 09:09:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!moliveira From: moliveira@kth.se (Mei Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Oct15.090942.6083@kth.se> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 09:09:42 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden. The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Mei Oliveira Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mkarlsson@pacbell.net Mon Oct 16 16:58:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@pacbell.net (Mei Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Oct16.165842.1577@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:58:42 GMT References: <1995Oct15.090942.6083@kth.se> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct15.090942.6083@kth.se>, moliveira@kth.se (Mei Oliveira) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. > Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! -- Mei Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From alee@uu.net Wed Oct 18 11:45:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!alee From: alee@uu.net (Amy Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Discussion: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Oct18.114542.3597@uu.net> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 11:45:42 GMT References: <1995Oct15.090942.6083@kth.se> <1995Oct16.165842.1577@pacbell.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct16.165842.1577@pacbell.net>, mkarlsson@pacbell.net (Mei Karlsson) writes: > Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit! When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Amy Lee -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."